San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-06-29
BRIEF MEN TON.

IL is said that all the elements of the
rattlesnake's poison are to be found in
| the common Irish potato.
Mrs. Alexander Mitchell has kindly
| consented not to contest her late hus-
bands will, and will try to sCrape along
| with 100000 cash and $50, 900 annual in
come. There is weeping in the tents Of
the lawyers.
Mrs. Langtry has made an investment
| in Salt Lake real estate. Her very dear
| friend and constant companion, Freddy
Gebhardt, made the selection. He has
the reputation of having good judgment
| in such matters.
Throughout England and even In par
| Lament Mr.. Parnell's name is usually
| spoken as in this country, with the ac-
| cent on the second syllable. But he and
| his closest friends accent 1t properly on
| the first syllable.
The message sent to Gov. Knott, of
| Kentucky, by the chief of the posse VIII o
wiped out the TOlliver gang will take
| its place alongside Of veni, vidi, vIci and
other laOOnic statement of victory. 1t
was simple: 81 done it,"
Susan +. Dickinson writes to the Phil
| aGelphia Times of today: 81 cannot an
swer the letters pouring in, therefore
| desire to say through the Times that
while Miss Anna Dickinson is slowly
COnvalesOing, she Is yet unable to lift
her head from the pillow or see any one
but her attendants"
A Bethlehem fruit grower claims to
| have successfully grated peach shoot
| on q sassafras tree, and a new fruit of
| higher flavor is expected. If this dis
| GOvery should be confirmed, it will be a
| boon to large ezra in the Southern
| states, where the soil seems to produce
| sassafras in abundance.
Among the veterans of the Mexican
war who celebrated the anniversary of
| PalO Alto at San Francisco recently was
z. d. O'Kelly, who is eighty years old,
| and "a veteran of the Texan war of in
dependence. He was oOmrade of Sam
| Houston and Davy Crockett, and he bore
the news of the fall of the Alamo to New
| Orleans.
Voting in Hungary Is done by an open
| poll, as it was formerly done in Eng
land. The electors go to the polls in
troops, wearing cOlOrs and emblems To
| prevent the professions from clashing
and consequent turbulence it is decided
| by lot which party shall vote first, the
other side meanwhile keeping away
from the hustings and biVOuacing.
vicar in England has greatly distin-
| guished himself by refusing to baptize a
child Jubilee" Another vicar stub
bOrnly refused to stop the ringing of a
harsh church bell, though he was told
that lady in an adjoining house was
seriously i'll, had just fallen asleep and
ought not to be disturbed. His excuse
was that "bellb were a command of God,
and were worn by the priests In the
time of Moses"
The New \ Ork Express mas interview
ed tho son of a man who used to water
the milk he supplied to Gen. Robert E
Lee when the latter was commandment at
West Point. TO illustrate, not General
Lees, but his fathers (the milman's)
| great amiabllity, the son said: 81 can
remember how Gen. Lee would say,
with a smile, to my father: Now, de-
sire You to be careful and not get toe
much water in your milk. The milk
you gave me the other day had sus.
piciOus taste He said it, though, in
such kindly, nice way, that father new.
er took any Ottense."
Jay Gould is the pOssessOr of new
private car made at the Pullman shops
1t surpasses anything Of the kind yet
1t is seventy feet long and weighs 7S,OO(
pounds. The average weight of the
Pullman bars Is 70, 600 pounds. 1t rests
on six-wheel trucks, the wheels being o
paper and fOrty-twO inches in diameter
Special pains have been taken to give
the car strength and steadiness Of mo
ton, and everything to this end tina
modern ingenuity has devised wa
! turged to account In It's construction,